Putin urges West to stop supplying weapons to Ukraine in call with his French counterpart

푸틴 "서방 무기공급 멈춰라"…마크롱과 5주만에 통화 Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with his French counterpart on Tuesday,... where he urged the West to halt its supply of weapons to Kyiv. He also stressed that Moscow still remains open to dialogue. Kim Hyo-sun has more. In a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday local time,... Russian President Vladimir Putin appealed to the West to stop supplying weapons to Ukraine. According to the Kremlin,... Putin also urged the West to put pressure on Ukraine to halt the ongoing atrocities. The Russian leader told his French counterpart that Moscow is still open to dialogue. Macron for his part,... according to the Kremlin,... explained that global food security was under threat due to the Ukraine war. He also called on the Russian leader to allow evacuations from the Azovstal steel plant in the city of Mariupol to resume. Macron is one of the few Western leaders to speak to Putin since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February. Against this backdrop,... Russia began a renewed attack on the Mariupol steel plant shortly after the first group of civilians was evacuated from the facility. Russia explained it was using artillery and aircraft to target firing positions taken by Ukrainian troops. This comes as the mayor of Mariupol estimated over 2-hundred civilians remain trapped under-ground,... with about 100-thousand civilians in the city. The Ukrainian military high command said Russia is calling in troops based in its far east to join the battle. According to the Center for Defense Strategies,... a Ukrainian think tank,... the Kremlin was concentrating its recruitment on the far east and Siberia to sustain the war in Ukraine. Kim Hyo-sun, Arirang News. #Vladimir_Putin #Emmanuel_Macron #supply_of_weapons 📣 Arirang News(Facebook) :   / arirangtvnews   📣 Arirang News(Twitter) :   / arirangtvnews   📣 News Center(YouTube) :    / newscenter_arirangtv   2022-05-04, 08:00 (KST)